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ratatosk.bsky.social
It’s #SquirrelAwarenessMonth, and reddit is post squirrel videos every day! This one is from Japan.
🇯🇵🐿️🌏 #Sqrlpix #SquirrelsOfTheWorld #Japan
October 3, 2026 at 4:04 PM
ratatosk.bsky.social
Time for another video of a Malabar Giant Squirrel (Ratufa indica), the world’s largest tree squirrel and the state mammal of Maharashtra in India. #SquirrelsOfTheWorld 🐿️🇮🇳 #SquirrelScrolling
July 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
birderbro.bsky.social
With this short break from #birds, I wish you all a very happy #SquirrelSunday 😀🙌

📍Sacramento, #California
🗓️ July 31, 2025

SMILE 😊

#SquirrelsOfTheWorld 🐿️🇺🇸 #SquirrelScrolling #sqrlpix #squirrel #Sunday #squirrels #mammals 🦊 #nature #smile #photography #wildlife #photographer #wildlifephotography
August 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
ratatosk.bsky.social
Time for another #SquirrelsOfTheWorld, and time to again celebrate the Malabar Giant Squirrel (Ratufa indica) from India, the world’s largest tree squirrel.
🇮🇳🐿️🌏
#Squirrels
September 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
ratatosk.bsky.social
Today is #GuineaIndependenceDay! And it’s #SquirrelAwarenessMonth, here’s a squirrel from Guinea,
Beecroft's Flying Squirrel, or Beecroft's scaly-tailed squirrel (Anomalurus beecrofti).
🇬🇳🐿️🌍 #SquirrelsOfTheWorld
Anomalurus beecrofti (Beecroft's Flying Squirrel) in a tree at night, photo by Mathias D’haen (from: https://eol.org/pages/289548 )
October 3, 2026 at 12:11 AM
ratatosk.bsky.social
July 5 is Algeria’s Independence Day, so here’s a Barbary Ground Squirrel (Atlantoxerus getulus). #SquirrelsOfTheWorld 
🇩🇿🐿🌍 #Algeria
Barbary Ground Squirrel (Atlantoxerus getulus)
July 6, 2026 at 1:33 AM
ratatosk.bsky.social
Some major news for #SquirrelAwarenessMonth and #SquirrelsOfTheWorld!
🇺🇸🐿️🌎
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orodentia.bsky.social Order Rodentia @orodentia.bsky.social · Oct 29
So much squee today!

UNC Greensboro researchers discover a new species of squirrel

"The Snake River Plains Ground Squirrel is native to Idaho near public land. The research involved analyses for over seven years."

www.wunc.org/environment/...
UNC Greensboro researchers discover a new species of squirrel
The Snake River Plains Ground Squirrel is named after its habitat in southern Idaho.
www.wunc.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
ratatosk.bsky.social
Happy Canada Day to this hungry red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) at Mont Tremblant in Quebec, just west of Montreal!

Yes, that is a dedicated squirrel feeder!
🇨🇦🐿️⚜️
#SquirrelsOfTheWorld #CanadaDay
July 1, 2026 at 7:45 PM
ratatosk.bsky.social
30 June is the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Independence Day. Congo is home to the Congo Rope Squirrel (Funisciurus congicus).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_r...
🇨🇩🐿️🌍
#30juin #RDC #SquirrelsOfTheWorld
www.iucnredlist.org/species/8758...
June 30, 2026 at 2:39 AM
ratatosk.bsky.social
30 June 2025 marks the 65th Anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s independence from Belgium. So here’s a Congo Rope Squirrel (Funisciurus congicus)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_r...
🇨🇩🐿️🌍 #30juin #RDC #SquirrelsOfTheWorld
www.iucnredlist.org/species/8758...
Congo rope squirrel - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
June 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
ratatosk.bsky.social
Japan’s native Sciurus lis, the Japanese Squirrel.
#SquirrelsOfTheWorld #SquirrelAwarenessMonth
🇯🇵🐿🌏 #sqrlpix
A Japanese Squirrel (Sciurus lis) on Mount Takao, Japan [source: https://www.takao599museum.jp/treasures/selected/543/?lang=en ]
October 26, 2023 at 9:41 AM
ratatosk.bsky.social
To celebrate South Africa’s #FreedomDay today, here is a Cape Ground Squirrel (Geosciurus inauris or Xerus inauris), sometimes called the South African Ground Squirrel — although they are found across southern Africa.
🇿🇦🐿️🌍 #SquirrelsOfTheWorld
#sqrlpix
Photo from Wikipedia: “Ground squirrels (Xerus inauris) in the Auob River Bed, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, SOUTH AFRICA @ O Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_ground_squirrel?wprov=sfti1#Behaviour_and_ecologyh
April 27, 2026 at 5:15 PM
ratatosk.bsky.social
One rodent that hasn’t been seen in over a decade of March Mammal Madness? The Grizzled Giant Squirrel (Ratufa macroura), which is the National Animal of Sri Lanka.
#2026MMM #TeamRodent
🇱🇰🐿️🌏
#SquirrelsOfTheWorld #squirrel
youtu.be/h-o8TXns8ZA
Meet the Giant Squirrel of Sri Lanka!
YouTube video by Aurora Wilderness
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March 6, 2026 at 2:34 AM
ratatosk.bsky.social
@windsweptsafaris.bsky.social There had better be a safari to see East African Squirrels! 🇰🇪🐿️ 🌍 #SquirrelsOfTheWorld
November 29, 2024 at 7:47 PM
ratatosk.bsky.social
Since today marks Mozambique’s 50th Anniversary as an independent state, here’s a Mozambique postage stamp of a Vincent's bush squirrel (Paraxerus vincenti), which is endemic to Mozambique.
#SquirrelsOfTheWorld
🇲🇿🐿️✉️ #Moçambique
A 1983 Mozambique postage stamp for 4MT with an image of a squirrel in a tree. Text says “Paraxerus vincenti”
June 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
ratatosk.bsky.social
This reminds me of when I used to do a whole #SquirrelsOfTheWorld thread for #SquirrelAwarenessMonth.
🇮🇳🐿️🌏 bsky.app/profile/rata...
ratatosk.bsky.social Ratatosk the Norse Squirrel God™️ @ratatosk.bsky.social · Sep 2
Time for another #SquirrelsOfTheWorld, and time to again celebrate the Malabar Giant Squirrel (Ratufa indica) from India, the world’s largest tree squirrel.
🇮🇳🐿️🌏
#Squirrels
October 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
ratatosk.bsky.social
Another squirrel native to South Sudan is the Unstriped Ground Squirrel (Xerus rutilus).
🇸🇸🐿️🌍 #SquirrelsOfTheWorld #sqrlpix en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstrip...
Unstriped ground squirrel - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
July 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
ratatosk.bsky.social
Here’s a Barbary Ground Squirrel (Atlantoxerus getulus) in the Canary Islands off the coast of North Africa. The photo is by Vladimír Cach. #SquirrelsOfTheWorld 
🇪🇸🐿🌍 #SquirrelAwarenessMonth #sqrlpix
A Barbary Ground Squirrel (Atlantoxerus getulus) in the Canary Islands [Source: https://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id114981/]
October 26, 2023 at 10:01 AM
ratatosk.bsky.social
Since it’s #SquirrelAwarenessMonth, this is a good opportunity to mention that there’s a real #VampireSquirrel, Borneo’s Tufted Ground Squirrel (Rheithrosciurus macrotis).
🌏🐿️🇲🇾 #SquirrelsOfTheWorld #sqrlpix youtu.be/T7gAOnxyWzw
‘Vampire’ squirrel caught on film
YouTube video by Science Magazine
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October 4, 2024 at 4:44 AM
ratatosk.bsky.social
I’ve celebrated Costa Rica’s beautiful Variegated Squirrel before, but for this #SquirrelAwarenessMonth, I now present to you the wonderful Red-tailed Squirrel (Sciurus granatensis).
#SquirrelsOfTheWorld
🇨🇷🐿️🌎
youtu.be/b_po9tEtheE
Red-tailed Squirrel (Sciurus Granatensis) at the Santa Lucía Reserve.
YouTube video by Santa Lucia
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
ratatosk.bsky.social
5 August is Burkina Faso’s Independence Day. To celebrate, here’s a Kintampo Rope Squirrel (Funisciurus substriatus), which lives in the southeast of Burkina Faso as well as neighbouring Benin, Togo, and Ghana.
#BurkinaFaso 🇧🇫🐿️🌍
#SquirrelsOfTheWorld
Photo of a Kintampo rope squirrel (Funisciurus substriatus) in a tree, from Wikipedia.
August 5, 2026 at 4:28 AM
ratatosk.bsky.social
In honour of all the new Brazilian accounts now on Bluesky, here is a video of Brazil’s Southern Amazon Red Squirrel (Sciurus spadiceus). #sqrlpix #SquirrelsOfTheWorld
🇧🇷🐿️🌎 youtu.be/ZAlnqEK_wX4
Southern Amazon red squirrel (Sciurus spadiceus),
YouTube video by Edson Guilherme
youtu.be
September 12, 2024 at 11:59 AM
ratatosk.bsky.social
Let’s take a moment to celebrate the first victory of Borneo’s Tufted Ground Squirrel (Rheithrosciurus macrotis) in #2024MMM. #TeamRodent is overdue for a March Mammal Madness championship, and #VampireSquirrel could win it all!
🇮🇩🐿️🌏
#Sqrlpix #SquirrelsOfTheWorld

www.newscientist.com/article/2251...
Borneo’s ‘carnivorous’ squirrel actually mainly eats one kind of seed
The Bornean tufted ground squirrel reputedly kills and eats deer – but the first scientific study of the rodent suggests it mainly feeds on the seeds of one tree
www.newscientist.com
March 17, 2024 at 11:16 AM
ratatosk.bsky.social
It’s #SquirrelAwarenessMonth! For #SquirrelsOfTheWorld, I’m starting with Southern Africa’s Cape Ground Squirrel (Geosciurus inauris)!
🐿🌍 #sqrlpix

“The name Cape ground squirrel is somewhat misleading as it actually has a much wider area of habitation” www.inaturalist.org/taxa/871614-...
South African Ground Squirrel (Geosciurus inauris)
Geosciurus inauris is a species of mammals with 1111 observations
www.inaturalist.org
October 1, 2023 at 11:24 AM
ratatosk.bsky.social
Here’s a video of a Southern Amazon Red Squirrel (Sciurus spadiceus) in Brazil for #SquirrelAwarenessMonth! 🇧🇷🐿🌎 #SquirrelsOfTheWorld #sqrlpix eol.org/pages/313019... 🐿 youtu.be/ZAlnqEK_wX4
Southern Amazon red squirrel (Sciurus spadiceus),
youtu.be
October 3, 2023 at 10:39 AM